Interface X509TrustManager

Instance of this interface manage which X509 certificates
may be used to authenticate the remote side of a secure
socket. Decisions may be based on trusted certificate
authorities, certificate revocation lists, online
status checking or other means.

Since:

1.4

Method Summary

Given the partial or complete certificate chain provided by the
peer, build a certificate path to a trusted root and return if
it can be validated and is trusted for client SSL
authentication based on the authentication type.

Given the partial or complete certificate chain provided by the
peer, build a certificate path to a trusted root and return if
it can be validated and is trusted for server SSL
authentication based on the authentication type.

Method Detail

checkClientTrusted

Given the partial or complete certificate chain provided by the
peer, build a certificate path to a trusted root and return if
it can be validated and is trusted for client SSL
authentication based on the authentication type.

The authentication type is determined by the actual certificate
used. For instance, if RSAPublicKey is used, the authType
should be "RSA". Checking is case-sensitive.

Parameters:

chain - the peer certificate chain

authType - the authentication type based on the client certificate

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if null or zero-length chain
is passed in for the chain parameter or if null or zero-length
string is passed in for the authType parameter

checkServerTrusted

Given the partial or complete certificate chain provided by the
peer, build a certificate path to a trusted root and return if
it can be validated and is trusted for server SSL
authentication based on the authentication type.

The authentication type is the key exchange algorithm portion
of the cipher suites represented as a String, such as "RSA",
"DHE_DSS". Note: for some exportable cipher suites, the key
exchange algorithm is determined at run time during the
handshake. For instance, for TLS_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_RC4_40_MD5,
the authType should be RSA_EXPORT when an ephemeral RSA key is
used for the key exchange, and RSA when the key from the server
certificate is used. Checking is case-sensitive.

Parameters:

chain - the peer certificate chain

authType - the key exchange algorithm used

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if null or zero-length chain
is passed in for the chain parameter or if null or zero-length
string is passed in for the authType parameter